Saturday, January 17, 2015

blackhat



The title "Black Hat" is deceptive as the main characters are more "white hat" than "black hat". A "black hat" hacker is a hacker who "violates computer security for little reason beyond maliciousness or for personal gain" (Moore, 2005). Black hat hackers form the stereotypical, illegal hacking groups often portrayed in popular culture, and are "the epitome of all that the public fears in a computer criminal".[ Black hat hackers break into secure networks to destroy, modify, or steal data; or to make the network unusable for those who are authorized to use the network. Black hat hackers are also referred to as the "crackers" within the security industry and by modern programmers. Crackers keep the awareness of the vulnerabilities to themselves and do not notify the general public or the manufacturer for patches to be applied. Individual freedom and accessibility is promoted over privacy and security. Once they have gained control over a system, they may apply patches or fixes to the system only to keep their reigning control. Richard Stallman invented the definition to express the maliciousness of a criminal hacker versus a white hat hacker who performs hacking duties to identify places to repair The movie however stars Christopher Helmsworth, from familiar movies like Thor 1&2, Avengers 1&2 and Need for speed. Chris stars as a computer hacker that is released from jail to hack into a mainframe for the law 4 out of 10. To fast for me. 

 


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